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Title: A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

Author: Edward Bok

Editor: John Louis Haney

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A DUTCH BOY FIFTY YEARS AFTER

by

EDWARD BOK

Adapted from _The Americanization of Edward Bok_

Edited with an Introduction by John Louis Haney, Ph.D.
President, Central High School, Philadelphia

Charles Scribner's Sons
New York Chicago Boston
Atlanta San Francisco

1921

[Frontispiece: Photograph of Edward Bok.]

TO

THE SCHOOLBOYS AND SCHOOLGIRLS OF AMERICA

I DEDICATE THIS STORY OF A BOY

WHO BELIEVED THAT AN OBSTACLE IS NOT SOMETHING

TO BE AFRAID OF

BUT IS ONLY A DIFFICULTY TO BE OVERCOME

AND WHO TOOK FOR HIS MOTTO

AS I HOPE EVERY ONE WHO READS THESE PAGES WILL DO

THESE LINES BY MADELINE S. BRIDGES:

"Give to the world the best you have
And the best will come back to you."

INTRODUCTION

In recent years American literature has been enriched by certain
autobiographies of men and women who had been born abroad, but who had
been brought to this country, where they grew up as loyal citizens of
our great nation. Such assimilated Americans had to face not only the
usual conditions confronting a stranger in a strange land, but had to
develop within themselves the noble conception of Americanism that was
later to become for them a flaming gospel. Andrew Carnegie, the canny
Scotch lad who began as a cotton weaver's assistant, became a steel
magnate and an eminent constructive philanthropist. Jacob Riis, the
ambitious Dane, told in _The Making of an American_ the story